stopping to help. On a raining highway in the middle of the night,
eyes can’t tell math from honey & every number equals
Coltrane counting it down from an upside-down car.

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Adrian Matejka is the author of The Devil’s Garden (Alice James Books, 2003), Mixology (Penguin USA, 2009), and The Big Smoke(Penguin USA), forthcoming in 2013. His work has appeared or is forthcoming in American Poetry Review, Gulf Coast, Ploughshares, and Poetry among other journals and anthologies. You can find him atwww.adrianmatejka.com or on Twitter: @adrian_matejka.